The Northern Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus mexicanus) is a species of bird

Bird

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 in the Tyrannidae family. It is, together with O. occidentalis and O. swainsoni, often considered a subspecies of O. coronatus.

It is found in Mexico

Mexico

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, south through most of Central America

Central America

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, to north-western Colombia

Colombia

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 and far western Venezuela

Venezuela

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Its natural habitat

Habitat

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 is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest

Forest

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Description

The Northern Royal Flycatcher is 16.5–18 cm (6½-7") long, brown above small buffy spots on its wing-coverts; the rump and tail are tawny-ochraceous in colour. The bill is long and broad.

The Royal Flycatcher has an erectile fan-shaped crest, coloured red in the male and yellow-orange in the female. The display with the crest fully raised is seen extremely rarely, except during banding sessions.

The Northern Royal Flycatcher is usually inconspicuous and quiet, but sometimes gives a repeated sharp clear pree-o or key-up, sounding rather like a Manacus

Manacus

Manacus is a genus of passerine birds in the manakin family which are found in the forests of tropical mainland Central and South America, and on Trinidad and Tobago...

manakin

Manakin

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 or a jacamar

Jacamar

The jacamars are a family, Galbulidae, of near passerine birds from tropical South and Central America, extending up to Mexico. The order contains five genera and 18 species...

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